Provenance of long-travelled dust determined with ultra-trace-element composition: A pilot study with samples from New Zealand glaciers

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 699-716

  Marx, Samuel K ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^a   McGowan, Hamish A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Contamination; Dust; ICP MS; New Zealand; Provenance; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIERS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST CHEMISTRY; ULTRA-TRACE-ELEMENT COMPOSITION;

DUST;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DUST; GLACIOCHEMISTRY; PROVENANCE; TRACE ELEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS; WORLD;

EID: 21344444109     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1169     Document Type: Article

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